The Economist covers the results of an experiment run in Britain which gave low-income single mothers coaching and financial incentives to be in work[8] – “Five years after the experiment started, the authors checked up on their subjects. The treatment group reported significantly lower levels of well-being, even though those individuals ended up with higher earnings than the control group. The treatment group were less happy with their lives and worried more about budgeting and debts. Helping people, in other words, seemed to hurt them.” The Economist doesn’t mention the attrition rate is 41%...